Originally Posted by luke3

Happened to me twice in a regional jet, in both cases after being told to "join the localizer and track inbound". In the first case we actually lost comms with Approach, being only able to hear static. I was PF that time. The second time the controller forgot about the approach clearance and handed us to tower. I was the PM for this one, read back the handoff and asked to verify approach clearance. He didn't acknowledge and started talking to other traffic. It was busy and I couldn't get a word in. Both times we went over to tower and asked them to verify the approach clearance before starting down on the glideslope. We had gone through the glideslope intercept both times and were a bit high, but both of us started slowing down and configuring early when we saw the situation start to develop so we were able to catch it back with an initially higher descent rate and still meet the company's stabilized approach criteria at 1,000 AGL.